Treating a Son-in-Law With a Home-Reared Rooster Is Now Just a Story
The custom of welcoming a son-in-law with a home-reared deshi rooster has faded in Pabna as backyard chicken rearing has declined.
The custom of welcoming a son-in-law with a home-reared deshi rooster has faded in Pabna as backyard chicken rearing has declined.
When nobody came to collect sacrificial animal hides in Moulvibazar after a daylong wait, people were forced to throw them in the river or bury them.
Beef menda, cooked with spices and thickened with rice flour, offers a change from the same everyday dishes.
LivestockFor Eid ul-Adha 2026, Jagonews24 published a recipe for haleem made with beef skin, mixed lentils, polao rice and spices; here it is with the World Health Organization's advice on cooking and storing meat safely.
Dhaka North City Corporation says 18,344 tonnes of Qurbani waste were taken to landfill by the third day of its 72-hour action plan.
LivestockOver Eid-ul-Azha 2026, 65 cows and 14 goats were sacrificed in Chapainawabganj at the initiative of local MP Nurul Islam Bulbul and the meat given away. Jugantor reported that 49 cows were funded by a Turkish NGO and the rest of the animals with money from Jamaat patrons.
Beef skin, usually thought of as useless, can be cleaned and cooked with spices into a soft and tasty bhuna.
Researchers say albino is not a buffalo breed but a genetic trait caused by a lack of melanin, which can appear rarely in any breed.
Commercial cultivation of improved Napier grass is spreading in Rangpur, where it earns several times more than rice and has become livestock farmers' main source of fodder.
People selling Qurbani hides in Barishal found cowhides fetching Tk 300 and goatskins almost nothing, and some madrasas say they may stop collecting hides altogether.
Animal waste, dung and mud were still lying beside Uttara North metro station on 29 May, a day after an illegal Eid cattle market there was removed.
With Dhaka emptied by the Eid holiday, Jatrabari's wholesale markets saw little trade on 29 May, with some vegetable and hilsa prices falling while others rose.
The makeshift markets where collected Qurbani meat is sold in Bogura town charged Tk 800 a kg this Eid, out of reach for many buyers.